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Re:How Meta Patches Linux at Hyperscale by extr on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:43PM (#38503370)
> My guess would be that this approach is papering over organizational dysfunction.

So what? At large enough scale organization problems are harder than technical ones: if you can fix the former with the latter, that's still a win.

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Re:How Meta Patches Linux at Hyperscale by hellozomo on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:17PM (#38504496)
But it's not "fixing" the problem, it's papering over the problem by piling tech debt on top of tech debt.

Framing this like it's a good thing is my only objection.

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